Surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have restored some hand function in a quadriplegic patient with a spinal cord injury at the C7 vertebra, the lowest bone in the neck.

(CBS News) Doctors have successfully restored partial hand function to a quadriplegic patient, providing hope for many others who have lost the function of their arms and legs. The case study was ...

Study design: Retrospective cohort study. Objective: To quantify the hand function of C6 and C7 tetraplegics 1–16 years after injury. Setting: Patients were assessed in their homes. Methods: Medical ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The thinner diameter of the C5 nerve root may be the reason it is more susceptible to damage during cervical ...

(Reuters Health) - - Doctors in Shanghai say they have made paralyzed arms useful again by surgically swapping a nerve coming out of the spinal cord. A year after the surgery, "the paralyzed arm ...

Transferring the C7 nerve from the nonparalyzed to the paralyzed side in patients with a stroke or other cerebral injury resulted in improved function and reduced spasticity in the affected arm, new ...

If you have neck pain, you might have a herniated disc. The bones in your neck make up part of your spine and are referred to as the cervical vertebrae. These vertebrae are mobile, allowing your head ...

This patient has multilevel cervical spondylosis and cervical radiculopathy. Cervical spondylosis is a chronic degenerative process of the intervertebral disks and facet joints. Degeneration of the ...